AVI file, streamclip,nothing plays. Would love some input

Things are never simple anymore. Just had a client give me an AVI file to use in a project. Of course it will not play. So I used streamclip to play it and all I get is a white screen. At this point I have no idea if it is a bad file or I am not using the proper tools to play it. I am lost. It is a 6.6 mb file so it must have some content. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Best
Tom

Yes, it can since it installs the ffmpeg and mencoder components.
in all honesty though if you are on an intel mac or a ppc one for that matter and can run windows via boot camp or Virtual PC respectively . . . or have access to a real PC you may just find that the easiest way to convert the file . . . . this is assuming that the client has the file in no other format since its as old as the hills to start with !
HTH's
One last thought playing it back in mplayer and using screen recording software to capture it to a quicktime file is a bit of a rough and ready solution but since I doubt the quality of the original file is going to be stunning its another alternative worth considering
Ha ! . . one other wild stab in the dark solution . . upload it to YouTube as an HD file and see if YouTube can convert it for you . . simple enough to download YT videos these days . . easy enough to convert that to quicktime . . rubbish quality I am betting tho
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You're spending a lot of money. I will add my 2¢ -- -- but you must, as I assume you know, fully research your options.
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and the like. So your code could become:
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here. First, I think that there is no bytesLoaded property for the
movieclip class. There is a getBytesLoaded() method, but that is
different.
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and bytesTotal ARE equal since neither exist. So they will both
need to be replace with the methods.
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I'm running OS 10.7.5 and most of the .mov files that were generated with Quicktime 7 doesn't play anymore, except in VLC.
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QT7 has a also a very nice feature that allow to reset the image ratio, which is sometime very usefull.
I shall say that videos came from a digital recorder I used to tape the TV and those files came as .AVI
Anyway, overnight (probably after an update of iTunes or any part of the system) QT 7 nor 10 can play those files anymore !
Each time I try to open a file with QT it says I need a codec, and leads to the DIVX download page, but installing this codec doesn't solve my problem.
QT7 was a very fine software and worked until now.
Why an update makes my system go backward ??!?
I'm a huge fan of Apple, but that is not acceptable !!!
It just makes me want to purchase on older mac and go back to 10.6 !!!
Shame on you Apple !

Indeed, a further search on the side lead me to this page :
http://perian.org/
and now it works again !
I still don't get how an update could change the system like this.
Anyway, thanks for the reply

AVI file, streamclip,nothing plays. Would love some input

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